There is no compensation programme, no presidential committee on foreign payment, no fund for spam/scam victims and nothing legit in that email.
There is only a scammer trying to steal your hard-earned money.
The next email will be from another of the scammer's fake names and free email addresses pretending to be some "government refund processor" and will demand you pay for made-up fees, in cash, and only by Western Union or moneygram.
Western Union and moneygram do not verify anything on the form the sender fills out, not the name, not the street address, not the country, not even the gender of the receiver, it all means absolutely nothing. The clerk will not bother to check ID and will simply hand off your cash to whomever walks in the door with the MTCN# and question/answer. Neither company will tell the sender who picked up the cash, at what store location or even in what country your money walked out the door. Neither company has any kind of refund policy, money sent is money gone forever.
Now that you have responded to a scammer, you are on his 'potential sucker' list, he will try again to separate you from your cash. He will send you more emails from his other free email addresses using another of his fake names with all kinds of stories of great jobs, lottery winnings, millions in the bank and desperate, lonely, sexy singles. He will sell your email address to all his scamming buddies who will also send you dozens of fake emails all with the exact same goal, you sending them your cash via Western Union or moneygram.
You could post up the email address and the emails themselves that the scammer is using, it will help make your post more googlable for other suspicious potential victims to find when looking for information.
Do you know how to check the header of a received email? If not, you could google for information. Being able to read the header to determine the geographic location an email originated from will help you weed out the most obvious scams and scammers. Then delete and block that scammer. Don't bother to tell him that you know he is a scammer, it isn't worth your effort. He has one job in life, convincing victims to send him their hard-earned cash.
Whenever suspicious or just plain curious, google everything, website addresses, names used, companies mentioned, phone numbers given, all email addresses, even sentences from the emails as you might be unpleasantly surprised at what you find already posted online. You can also post/ask here and every scam-warner-anti-fraud-busting site you can find before taking a chance and losing money to a scammer.
6 "Rules to follow" to avoid most fake jobs:
1) Job asks you to use your personal bank/paypal account and/or open a new one.
2) Job asks you to print/mail/cash a check or money order.
3) Job asks you to use Western Union or moneygram in any capacity.
4) Job asks you to accept packages and re-ship them on to anyone.
5) Job asks you to pay visas, travel fees via Western Union or moneygram.
6) Job asks you to sign up for a credit reporting or identity verification site.
Avoiding all jobs that mention any of the above listed 'red flags' and you will miss nearly all fake jobs. Only scammers ask you to do any of the above. No. Exceptions. Ever. For any reason.
If you google "fake compensation progamme scam", "fraud Western Union compensation program scam" or something similar you will find hundreds of posts from victims and near-victims of this type of scam.
This is a SCAM.
There is NO such thing as a Presential Committee on Foreign Payment and no sort of compensation programme. This is another scam run by the same scammers running lottery scams, inheritance scams, romance scams, etc to try and steal even more money from their victims
Mark as Spam and Delete it and DO NOT open emails from people you don't know as you are obviously on a spam list
If you believe the above you deserve to scammed its just a scam claiming not to be a scam but would love to see the terms and conditions you would have to go through to get the money should be good for a laugh.
30 May 2012 – Any Amway drone can spew endlessly on compensation plan ... plan and also the value added information designed to actually help improve our society. ..... Hey have you guys seen alex nickersons most recent blog post!
Just another spam/scam, delete it.
I receive an email that i was mentioned and shorted list as a internet scam/spam victim, who has lost their time,funds, resources and other valuable items in the pursuit of their Lottery Winning Funds payment, Inheritance Funds etc. so the the PRESIDENTIAL COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN PAYMENT have COMPENSATED YOU EACH of the SPAM/SCAM VICTIMS with the sum of Two million five hundred thousand British pounds(?2,500,000.00 Pounds) only as compensation scheme benefits.
I need to know what is this?
